Monday, January 13, 2014

-30 is kinda cold...

1/7/2014

Hola everyone!
Sorry I'm a day late. Yesterday, we were commanded to stay inside all day for
P-Day, so that was interesting. Kokomo was in a state of emergency until 12, so
you got a ticket if you went outside. We were grounded, so we just stayed in
until a member came and rescued us from our boredom. We went and hung out with
them and had dinner and played games and had FHE, so it was fun! They're having
us over tonight too because we're still partially grounded though we can drive
if we have appointments, so that's good.

So last
Monday, Sister C and I had a shoppin' day. Except she doesn't hold up quite as
well as you Mom. She needed a coat and boots and stuff, so she learned how I
shop. She wanted a good coat that kept her warm and she was thinking like
Wal-Mart and I said no-no, so we went to a sporting goods store and she
proceeded to buy a $120 Colombia coat. I was so proud. haha :) (her dad has taught her this – when it comes to warmth price
does not count – you get what you pay for) She did buy Wal-Mart boots
though. I couldn't convince her otherwise. We also went to Applebee’s, so thanks for lunch! :) (We
sent her an Applebee’s
gift card for Christmas)
It was a good last hurrah. That night, we did some visiting, taught a member,
and dropped a cake off to Brother F and Sister C (they got baptized about 3
months ago...I think I've talked about them before) because it was F's Birthday.
Tuesday, we visited a few members that Sister C wanted to say bye to and did
service at the library and went and taught a new investigator. She's pretty
awesome, has a few problems with wanting everything proved, but awesome :) Then
we had a New Years' Eve party at the church. We got to play Skip-bo! MY
FAVORITE! I even won once. It was sweet.

New Years'
Day, we had to be in Fishers at 9 for my Trainer meeting, had transfer meeting,
and got my new trainee! Her name is Sister W and she is from McCall, Idaho! She
was surprised I knew where that was. What was the condo called we stayed at? (We spent a week in McCall a few years back and had a blast!
It brings back bad memories for Zachary though because it was there that he
lost his Woody from Toy Story) Her family manages a hotel up there. She
had a boot on cause she had a stress fracture, so we haven't done much
tracting, but she now has two shoes, so that's good! :) She's awesome.
Hopefully it'll be good. Kinda scary training, but it should be great. She's
doing pretty well for the fact we haven't done much "missionary" work
since we've been stuck inside. I finally get to drive though! I'm driving a
2013 Subaru...probably never will drive a car newer than this after...unless
another mission car is newer. Crazy. So that night, when we got back from
Fishers, we had a meeting with the Bishop, went grocery shopping, and ate
dinner with J (who just got baptized).

Thursday, a
lot of the day was spent inside because we had Weekly Planning and such, but we
did get to visit Sister T (I'm so coming back when they go to the temple) and
Sister H and a few other less actives since we couldn't do too much contacting
with Sister W's boot and having to hop around in the snow :)

Friday, we
had to go to Lafayette for Zone Training
and had to leave pretty early cause we had to pick the Elders up too because
their car is in the shop cause Elder G may or may not have rear ended
someone... haha :) So we had an awesome Zone Training (fun fact: my visiting
teacher from USU is on her mission here! Sister McM! Crazy small world!) and
then came back, had some appointments with an investigator and less-actives and
a dinner appointment...and that's about it.

Saturday, we
were all ready to go out and our furnace had an explosion...no worries, it
wasn't too serious, but there was a bunch of build up and it was blocking the
gas exchanger so it blew the pilot light out, so we had to get that fixed since
it was going to be -30... so that took a couple hours of our day. We then
knocked on our first door and got a solid potential. He's awesome and says we
should be converted to Jesus Christ, not to a church, which is sweet cause he
was talking about how all the people are too hateful of denominations. So
sweet. We had another appointment with our investigator from above (the proving
one) and then we went to a baptism for one of the 8 year olds in our ward. We
had dinner at Cracker Barrel that night with F and K then two appointments with
less-actives.

Sunday, we had
just Sacrament Meeting because it was snowing, had lunch with the L's, then we
did some stuff around the apartment since we weren't supposed to be out and
about all that much, went and shoveled snow for Sister R's mom, then studied
that night.

Yesterday, you
already heard about.

Today,
everything is closed so we are emailing from the family history center and then
we have an appointment with a Jehovah's Witness we are teaching. She is SO
COOL. Oh my goodness. And she's so prepared. I'm excited to hopefully see her
progress. Then we're not supposed to be out too much, so we'll probably do some
more stuff around the apartment (needless to say, everything is pretty
organized) and stop by some members and less-actives and then the D's are
feeding us again. They're so good to us :)

And I think
that's about it for this week. Kind of a crazy, not typical missionary week,
but it's been good! Keeping things interesting!

So to answer
Dad's letter (Mom, if you sent a letter, the mail hasn't come for days so I'll
get it eventually. Did you get my package and was everything in one piece?) (Yes, I did send her a letter, but not until Thursday – so
hopefully she will get it today. We did get her package and her glass angel
arrived perfectly intact – thanks to the Hines’ for the angel)

I MISS THE
BLENDTEC. Oh my. I want hot chocolate. (Chuck is famous
for using his Blendtec every day – He & Darcie always came up with some
pretty tasty stuff from that machine.)

I am on the
Sunday Afternoon session of conference. I read one every morning at breakfast.
I'm also reading the other Ensigns too, especially these past couple days, so
that's been good. (Her and her dad keep track of each
other to make sure that they are both reading the Conference Ensigns)

I'm so glad
the Cougars lost and the Aggies won...SICK. Go Aggies. (I
was hoping her attitude toward the BYU Cougars would change but it doesn’t appear to be happening)

So, did you
see Jessie Bohne Johnson at Center Street Grill? (We
didn’t see Jessie there) Will you please tell her (I think she's my friend on
Facebook) to write me? I miss her face.

And GO COLTS!
I heard they won by one. Awesome. That's my state! (I
guess she has a new favorite football team now!)

Love ya'll!
Happy New Year!

Peace and
Blessin's.

Sista
Christensen

Pictures:

I can't get
them to work this week...I'll work on it a little bit and see, but you might
just have to wait...(I think this is the first week
without pictures – can’t wait for next week!)